Speakers

Speech Title : Waste-to-Energy Systems: Advancing Resource Recovery and Sustainable Power Generation

A Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from the Civil Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in September 1993. B.Sc degree from the Civil Engineering Department at An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. Prof. Al-Khatib has experience in a wide range of areas including water recourses management and quality, renewable and sustainable energy, environmental assessment, wastewater management, advocacy, coordination and networking. Al-Khatib has an extended experience in the development and carrying research and evaluation projects, professional work experience in water resources management, environmental impact assessment, environmental monitoring, training and evaluation of medical waste, solid waste, waste to energy, climate change, water and sanitation and urban environment projects. He is an expert in social and environmental health, promoting environmental public awareness through training, organizing and conducting awareness campaigns and workshops in environmental education and health.

Speech Title : Power electronics circuits for grids supplied by photovoltaic energy

Adrian Ioinovici, IEEE Fellow, is with Shanghai University of Electrical Power, China, within the plan “one thousand” foreign experts of P R China. He also holds honorary professorships from many universities. He received the IEEE Fellow grade for “pioneering work in switched-capacitor converters” and served as Associate Editor for many IEEE Transactions. He authored the books Computer-Aided Analysis of Active Circuits (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1990) and Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Systems, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Hard-switching Converters (Wiley, 2013). His main research interests are switching-capacitor (SC) converters and inverters, large dc gain converters, hybrid-SC power electronics, soft-switching converters. He published over 200 papers in IEEE Transactions and conferences. Prof. Adrian Ioinovici is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Power Electronics Research and Applications (PERA) Transactions.